Death knell for CG(X)
February 2nd, 2010 | Ballistic missile defense Science and technology Washington | Posted by Phil Ewing
The results of a search Tuesday on the Navy's excellent photo site // Screen-grab by Scoop Deck
Ah, the advanced next-generation cruiser known as CG(X) — we hardly knew ye. Sure, some people knew ye very well — 500 pages well, in the fabled analysis of alternatives that only appeared once a year, on fire, on the horizon off Ocracoke. But for the rest of us, this is as much of an obituary as we’ll get for the massive, maybe-nuclear surface combatant that never was:
CG(X)
The Department proposes to terminate the CG(X) program. This decision was driven by affordability considerations. Instead of procuring CG(X), the Navy is considering other options including maturing the air and missile defense radar program and using technologies from other kinds of ships such as DDG-1000 and DDG-51 destroyers.
The Navy Department’s top budget officer, Rear Adm. Joseph Mulloy, told reporters at the Pentagon on Monday that he didn’t know exactly what kind of savings the Navy’s program had realized from the cancellation of CG(X): “Whatever money was laid in the plan was harvested out of it,” he said.
The Navy’s current strategy is to combine the SPY-3 radar from the Zumwalt class with the latest Advanced Capability Build-edition of the Aegis system on an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer hull, Mulloy said. They’ll start design work in fiscal 2014 on the “radar test ship,” as he called it, and try to build it in fiscal 2016.
The massive .pdf file with the Navy’s 2011 budget is online here, but be advised that it can take a few moments for that bad boy to load up.
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